suspicious, paranoia inducing behavior. (I'll probably regret posting this).

[Ibrahim90]

[spoiler]well, I have had the strangest thing ever happen on facebook:

the other day, I got a friendship request from a random lady. she is from my writing arguments class. Now normally, this wouldn't raise any suspicion: lots of people I have regular contact with end up asking me to be their friend (which is funny, since I rarely even log into my account). not thinking about it, I approved it, and left it at that.

but then I realized: I barely ever talked to her, and vice versa. the only conversation I had was regarding whether I could join a group* she happened to be in-an address that wasn't even specifically meant for her, but the group as a whole. I didn't join, as the topic was not something I thought important or relevant to me.

of course, that leaves an obvious conundrum: why send a friendship request? It can't be anything I said: my only conversation was formal, and much of what she (and the rest of the class) hears from me are typical Ibrahim: blunt, unapologetic, stubborn, and arguably rude comments, opinions, and of course, my incessant dash to answer questions**. I even made some very disturbing comments about myself (jokes of a...morbid nature--it's a specialty of mine). I rule out any attraction, on account of me being ugly. (assuming shallowness seems reasonable for CSU students in general).

that still leaves out some other possibilities: but my paranoia means that most are admittedly, too embarrassing to post here[/spoiler]

what do you guys think? I figured I need the opinion of sager people, who are not as paranoid.

[spoiler]
*we were to form groups based on a theme. mine ended up being about politics, but at the time, the people who would be interested were unavailable, so I tried to join an already present group.
**It's a Palestinian thing. don't ask. the bluntness/stubbornness part though is uniquely Hebron.
[/spoiler]

[Gumba Masta]

Yep, she's spying on you. Now why she'd do that is a-something I dunno.
Maybe she has a fetish.
God... I wish my therapist had a chubby chaser fetish...
...
*ahem*
nevermind.

[Anpanman]

Yep, she's spying on you. Now why she'd do that is a-something I dunno.
Maybe she has a fetish.
God... I wish my therapist had a chubby chaser fetish...
...
*ahem*
nevermind.

This.

Sounds like an undercover CIA agent to me. You better go see your doctor to see if theres a tracking chip secretly implanted in your head. Actually no, the doctor might also be an undercover agent of a secret society and even all the memories of past events might all be fabricated. Your parents and childhood friends never existed, even I don't exist.

Jokes aside she probably added you because thats what people do. I know its strange but some people like to add friends that they barely even know so they could show off how much friends they have or to make others think that they have more friends than they do in real life.
Typical facebook-social behavior. Nothing to see here.
Now move along citizen, your daily chocolate production has not met the quota. Get back to work.

[MrBogosity]

It was probably a ruse so she could hack your computer and install mind-reading software. Cover your head with aluminum foil, that should stop the signal getting in.

[Ibrahim90]

It was probably a ruse so she could hack your computer and install mind-reading software. Cover your head with aluminum foil, that should stop the signal getting in.

Yep, she's spying on you. Now why she'd do that is a-something I dunno.
Maybe she has a fetish.
God... I wish my therapist had a chubby chaser fetish...
...
*ahem*
nevermind.

I just knew it was a bad idea posting this on April fool's day 

meh, if I can't beat them, join them I guess.

Jokes aside she probably added you because thats what people do. I know its strange but some people like to add friends that they barely even know so they could show off how much friends they have or to make others think that they have more friends than they do in real life.
Typical facebook-social behavior. Nothing to see here.

still doesn't make sense. it just makes people look stupid and weird.

[Goaticus]

Don't add her as a friend unless you're 60% sure she'll put out at some point.

[Anpanman]

still doesn't make sense. it just makes people look stupid and weird.

Maybe to you it does but to us young generation folks its not odd to see some attention-whoring scene girl/guy to have 1000 friends for an ego boost. Even if they aren't doing it to get attention it has practically become a norm just to add random people you meet at parties and other places.
You'll understand as you grow younger and you're at my age...
oh wait.

[Ibrahim90]

Maybe to you it does but to us young generation folks its not odd to see some attention-whoring scene girl/guy to have 1000 friends for an ego boost. Even if they aren't doing it to get attention it has practically become a norm just to add random people you meet at parties and other places.
You'll understand as you grow younger and you're at my age...
oh wait.

I'm 22. granted, I didn't grow up in the west, but I'm still 22.

[Anpanman]

I'm 22. granted, I didn't grow up in the west, but I'm still 22.

It was sort of a joke.

[Gumba Masta]

...
I was being serious, you know.

[Anpanman]

...
I was being serious, you know.

I expect nothing less.

[MrBogosity]

All Gumba Masta has to do on April Fools Day is act like he does the other 364 days of the year.

[Ibrahim90]

All Gumba Masta has to do on April Fools Day is act like he does the other 364 days of the year.

I'm not sure if that is a good or bad sign.

[Anpanman]

I'm also a tad bit paranoid to some degree I'll admit. You guys are good with computers are you not?
I don't want to start a new thread but is there any other way to detect rootkits, spyware without the use of anti-virus just in case AVG doesn't pick up on it?

Is there any way to see if someone is going through my computer?

[MrBogosity]

You can run software like HijackThis! on your computer to scan for problems, and you can run Nessus from a networked computer to see what vulnerabilities exist.